derekp7

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by derekp7 6y ago
I came back home from a 2-week summer camp, at 13 years old, to an IBM PCjr. Was told "We spent a lot of money on this setup, it better not be collecting dust in a few months". From there I learned DOS, Basic, general "admin
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by derekp7 6y ago
I actually see a market for 5G towers to use Starlink as an uplink. Imagine a pre-packaged solution that gives a 5G provider a solar-powered all-in-one box that can be placed at any high point, without the need to run power or data lines t
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by derekp7 6y ago
It's called Woodman's Market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodman%27s_Markets . Mostly in souteastern Wisconsin, and some in northeastern Illinois. My favorite part of it is the fact that you don't hav
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by derekp7 6y ago
I just end up hanging a few sheets of TP over the sensor before sitting down, then remove them when I'm done.
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by derekp7 6y ago
There's a chain of supermarkets around here that are the size of a Super Walmart, but all groceries. They carry for example 15 flavors or more of PopTarts, just to give one example. And they have low prices, and have seemed to figure
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by derekp7 6y ago
Isn't that because most of the people that fly multiple times a year aren't the ones paying for the tickets? Instead their company has policies on getting the cheaper flights. And people that fly for a vacation once every few ye
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by derekp7 6y ago
This is because there is the tendency to reduce stress by throwing money at the problem. Car unreliable? Got a raise? Buy a new car that won't break down at random. Now you are stuck in car payments for the next 5 - 7 years. There&
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by derekp7 6y ago
I plan on voting by remote ballot, but dropping it off at a ballot drop box.
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by derekp7 6y ago
If I recall correctly, there was at one time a Linux boot loader that ran from DOS, which could make use of DOS device drivers. I recall using Yggdrasil Linux which had an option to boot this way, which used the DOS driver for my SCSI card
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by derekp7 6y ago
I really like the idea of openSCAD, in fact I use it exclusively for 3D modeling. My biggest problem with it is the language implementation. Things like: x = 5; cylinder(d = x, h=10); x = 20; Well, this will make a cylind
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by derekp7 6y ago
And collision avoidance. Which is a highly desirable feature. I would also love to have a dashboard device that alerts me whenever I exceed the speed limit by some threshold. Practically any ticket I've gotten as an adult was due to
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by derekp7 6y ago
I also recall that it was actually primarily a GPU chip which had an ARM core originally intended as a driver for the GPU (and not really intended as a primary processor). And they were leftovers from larger volume chip runs.
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by derekp7 6y ago
We were watching it at work (remember offices?), had several people around someone's monitor. Somebody walks by, and asks what movie that is that we were watching. Couldn't convince them that it was real.
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by derekp7 6y ago
The big thing for me is that (Open) Solaris felt like a single solid product, the same feeling I always got from FreeBSD. Whereas the various Linux distributions always felt like a grab bag of various pieces, some of which worked well and
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by derekp7 6y ago
The problem I have is I tend to go to the opposite extreme. In anticipation of any question that someone may raise about the issue I'm asking about, I tend to give a lot of background (most of it probably irrelevant) and other details
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by derekp7 6y ago
A buddy at work used to work for MWC, and always talks about what might have been. This, among other stories...
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by derekp7 6y ago
I've actually been planning on getting one of those mini Bluetooth keyboards, take it out of the case, and design a custom cell phone case where the top hinges up similar to how a tackle box opens up. Still working out the details and
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by derekp7 6y ago
There could be a couple different usages of "essential" in this case. There is the services that are needed to keep people alive, then there are services needed to keep people healthy (including mental health), and finally servic
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by derekp7 6y ago
I would like to see a kit from SpaceX which provides a solar powered Starlink to LTE bridge. Such kits could be installed anywhere, and provide service to places such as farm communities (install them on top of grain silos, for example).
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by derekp7 6y ago
We had that back in the 70's. It was called Citizen's Band radio.
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by derekp7 6y ago
Right, what I was proposing is that even a free user should be able to (optionally) provide enough identifying information when setting up MFA. Then upon needing a reset, that would be a per-incident charge.
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by derekp7 6y ago
If it is an anonymous account (identified only by a made up user ID and password), then that limits options. If a user supplies credentials when creating the account, including a valid credit card that ties back to the individual, then lat
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by derekp7 6y ago
I wonder how Amazon will be able to pull profitability with this, compared to Space-X? For Space-X to make it work, they are launching on their own re-usable rockets, and I believe that they are banking on the projected Starship cost model
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by derekp7 6y ago
Yes, I was trying to think of something real quick, so I picked the resolution of my (older) monitor at work because it was simple. You caught me!
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by derekp7 6y ago
I knew someone that had an HOA rule against window air conditioners. His solution was to keep the window-mount unit inside his bedroom, with the back end (that normally sticks outside the house) enclosed in a box. That box had an intake and
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by derekp7 6y ago
One under-appreciated aspect of a slide rule, is for instantly seeing fraction reductions at a glance. For example, lets say I want to find out what aspect ratio a given screen resolution is at. I can set that resolution as a ratio on the
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by derekp7 6y ago
This is similar to what I've found, in that writing documentation for a product before I've written any code actually makes the product turn out better. When in design / development mode, I tend to think of all kinds of &quo
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by derekp7 6y ago
What is the easiest way to do that in Word, when it flags many technical terms as spelling errors? You can turn off spell check, but that setting doesn't stay with the document. Also, if you spell check and mark the item as correct,
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by derekp7 6y ago
What about sunglasses? Why doesn't that feel threatening when you see someone slip on a pair of sunglasses, and a hat? After all sunglasses are a form of a mask for the upper part of the face.
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by derekp7 6y ago
This is because people in the US are used to dealing with legislation that means almost nothing until it gets interpreted by the courts, and no one wants to be that first test case so their lawyers take the worst-case approach. Just like m

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